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He bobbed to one man, and he winked to another, and he tossed his glass, and gave all the points of his song in a manner which did credit to his simplicity and his humour. You haughty Southerners little know how a jolly Scotch gentleman can desipere in loco, and how he chirrups over his honest cups. I do not say whether it was with the song or with Mr. Binnie that we were most amused.
She wheels half around and looks over her shoulder. The flaring bonnet and loose ribbons gave her a more girlish look than ever. "Now which is the older, little old woman?" she chirrups, and smites her daughter's cheek softly with her palm. "And you are not afraid to go alone?" "No; but remember! look at that dog!" The brute sinks apologetically to the floor.
Miss Whitford bit her lip to keep from exploding in a sudden gale of mirth. But the sight of her self-appointed chaperon set her off into peals of laughter in spite of herself. Every time she looked at Johnnie she went off into renewed chirrups. He was so homely and so deadly earnest. The little waif was staring at her in perplexed surprise, mouth open and chin fallen.
Crimson carnations in earthenware pots stand on the steps of the outside staircase, giving a touch of refinement to the squalid home, and from the balcony overhead the glossy-black, yellow-billed passer solitario, the favourite cage-bird of the Neapolitan poor, chirrups with apparent cheerfulness in his wicker-work prison.
'They could go in bits of holes and corners, Hazel put in anxiously, 'and nobody'd ever know they were there! And the bird chirrups lovely, fine days. Abel shouted with laughter. 'Tuthree feathers and a beak! he said. 'And the rabbit'd be comforbler a muff. Edward hastily ended the discussion. 'Of course, they shall all come, he said.
When I stirred and looked about me it had become easy to see the separate grasses; a bird or two had begun little interrupted chirrups in the bushes, a day-breeze broke from up the valley ruffling the silence, the moon was dead against the sky, and the stars had disappeared. In a solemn mood I regained the road and turned my face towards the neighbouring sources of the river.
I promise you that. Come." They sat upon a reed silleta at the window and watched the quivering gleams from the lights of the Catarina reflected in the harbour. Presently Pasa rippled out one of her infrequent chirrups of audible laughter. "I was thinking," she began, anticipating Dicky's question, "of the foolish things girls have in their minds.
Lena Dubarri, who was the captain-general of their thinking department, met Waldo Orpington in the Mall one afternoon, just at a time when the fortunes of the Cause were at their lowest ebb. Waldo Orpington is a frivolous little fool who chirrups at drawing-room concerts and can recognise bits from different composers without referring to the programme, but all the same he occasionally has ideas.
It chirrups of the dear silly couple. Well, this was her wish. Was it his? Young health on the flow of her leaping blood cried out that it could not be other than Alvan's wish; she believed in his wishing it. Then as he wished and she wished, she had the will immediately, and it was all the more her own for being his as well.
Ah, how delicious it all was, the Robinson Crusoe feel of the whole thing; the heavenly air, the fluttering leaves, the birds' chirrups and whistle, and the foreground of happy, healthy men! Rose and I had enough to do, even with Nettle's assistance, in acting as police to keep off those bold thieves, the wekas, who are as impudent as they are tame and fearless.
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